Lot 157 Dα

A keyaki root wood inrô with drawers. 19th century

The square box shape decorated on one side in takamaki-e with a running ox which a boy (on the other side) with a rope is trying to tie to a pine trunk with a rope on a natural wood ground with a thin coating of transparent lacquer, details in kirikane and aogai. Behind a slidig dooe five drawers. Rubbed to the edges and chipped.
Height 9.2 cm; width 19.3 cm